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The What We Do is Secret Issue

Do It!
Since bassline isn’t coming to London anytime soon, when a film Easychord shot got accepted into the Sheffield Film Festival late last year, we decided to head up to South Yorkshire the weekend of the festival to check out a bassline rave first hand...
Prancehall, Easychord
1.1.08
The What We Do is Secret Issue

Vice Fiction - My Appetite
I began stealing when I was twenty-two. The first thing I stole was a chocolate muffin. I started eating it on my way round the supermarket and finished it before I got to the till. From then on, whenever I did my weekly food shop, I'd steal something...
Joe Dunthorne
1.1.08
The What We Do is Secret Issue

Endless Harmoniacals
Jazz can be scary. Unless you are some child prodigy in a Richard Powers novel, it's unlikely you will experience that much jazz in your quotidian existence. In general you evolve through the elementary pre-pubescent guitar music phase, through the...
Avant Jams
1.1.08
The What We Do is Secret Issue

Gully-sidal Tendencies
Mavado is the best thing to have happened to dancehall in years. He has the premier new catchphrases ("Anywaaaaayeeeeeee" and "Gangster for liiiife"), if you look into his eyes you'd swear it was the devil looking back at you, and his debut album is a...
Prancehall
1.1.08
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Vice Fashion - Rock And Roll, Keep Playing For Me
Photos by Jonnie Craig, Tara Darby, Gavin Watson, James Pearson-Howes and Ben Rayner Styling by Richard Simpson, Aldene Johnson, Mischa Notcutt, Jemma Sawyer, Milene Larsson and Jem Goulding
Jonnie Craig, Tara Darby, Gavin Watson, James Pearso
1.1.08
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Records
JAY-Z American Gangster Everybody’s walking around saying this album is great. They’re wrong. It’s better than Jigga’s last piece of crap, but it’s hardly reminiscent of Reasonable Doubt and
VICE Staff
1.1.08
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Vice Fashion - First Love
Photos by Jeroen W. MantelStyling by Renske Van Der PloegVice: So you two are in love. How did you meet?
Jeroen W Mantel
1.1.08
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Bees And Trees
Baby Dee is a singer-songwriter-harpist-pianist with a voice like an angel who fell from heaven. She has played with Current 93 for a while now, and she just put out a solo record of strong and sad and pretty songs on the Drag City label
Baby Dee, Matt Sweeney
1.1.08
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Yet More Fucking Hippies
Ever had a hangover that you could describe as "beautiful"? They're not common. They're not your regular earth shattering- shit- your- bowels- out-of-a- ringpiece-that- feels-like-its-been- soaked-in- stinging-nettles- for-a-week-every- five-minutes...
Bill Cosby, Pills, Gash & Lungfish
1.1.08
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Vice Fashion - Postcards From The Big Calf Island
Photos by Juoko Lehtola Styling by Janic Leino The best Finnish saunas are on private islands like this one, Iso Vasikkasaari
Jouko Lehtola
1.1.08
The What We Do is Secret Issue

Newsflash: Electro Still Sucks
Although few history books will be using this as a reference, and many casual observers may not be aware of this, as far as some dance fans are concerned we have entered the post-Justice era. Since electroclash disbanded, like a rent boy rumbled by a...
Randy Pan
1.1.08
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Electric Independence
At the end of October last year, Bogdan Raczynski fell from a hotel window in Graz, Austria, and ended up in hospital with two broken heels. Heels-ouch. In Graz to perform at the four-day Elevate festival, the mild-mannered rave heavyweight-who...
Piers Martin
1.1.08
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